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In preparation for next week's episode about the vocal cords, we talk to phenomenal Asheville alt-pop musician, vocalist, voice over actor, and audiobook narrator Moon Bride about the ins and outs of working with one's voice.
You can find Moon Bride's music on all the major platforms like Spotify and Youtube by searching her name. And you can follow her on Instagram to keep up with her music releases and concerts.
Here's some links to her stuff:
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSAknB96lwkp-etOS3lxpZQ
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/moonbride.music/
As for us . . . Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thick-thighs-and-creepy-vibes/id1736179086
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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In this episode we talk about AJR, their invention of a synthesizing process for morphing instrument sounds into different instrument sounds (idk, I don't understand it to be honest), and synesthesia. Did you know there are a bunch of different types of synesthesia? You will know after you listen. And possibly see colors while you're listening? Synesthetes, write in and tell us what colors our voices are.
We look at trends and misuses of mental health buzz words. Self care. Trigger. Gas light. Etc. Everyone's using these words, but do they mean what they think they mean?
In Eurovision, we talk about Australia 2024's offering - One Milkali by Electric Fields, and we talk about the indigenous culture of Australia.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Crime & Spirits. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/crimeandspiritspodcast
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We're looking at the etymology and evolution of "rawdog" so we decided to rawdog this episode! That's right, no planning, decision making, or research was done before we started recording. Listen if you dare as we go mask off and show you just how slow and dumb we really are.
We chose Pussy Cat Dolls "Don't Cha" for the music segment, and looked at a song for Eurovision that was in the running but ultimately didn't get picked.
If you like it raw, today's your lucky day.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Crime & Spirits. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/crimeandspiritspodcast
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We talk about the history and evolution of "woke" from the simple opposite of slept to the catchall term for everything the fascists of the world dislike.
Music-wise, we'll talk about a semi-recent song that implores us to stay woke, Childish Gambino's "Redbone".
In Eurovision, we look at Cyprus's competitor, Theo Evan, and political and racial words with Greek and Turkish origins.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Speak of the Devil. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/speakofthedevil
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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In America we use red blooded blue collar measurements like feet and yards and miles. But what's up with that? And what's a furlong? And a perch?
We talk about the Proclaimers' hit song and their evolution, and we talk about the evolution of the mile and other measurements that we just can't let go of even as the rest of the world has gone metric.
In Eurovision, we talk about the debut of Celine Dion, with her 1988 song for Switzerland, "Ne partez pas sans moi".
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Moonlight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-moonlight/id1703911242
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We talk about everyone's favorite lesbian pop star, where she came from and her own impact on language and the pop music discourse.
And we discuss the etymology of baby, its origins, its evolution of use over time. When and why did we start using it to mean romantic partners?
In Eurovision, we discuss Latvia's 2024 entry "Hollow" by Dons, and we talk about Latvian words for baby and for romantic partners.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Bad Acts. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-acts-a-true-crime-podcast/id1538464479
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Since August of 2024, women in Afghanistan have been banned by the Taliban from speaking or being heard in public places. Some Afghan women have bravely released recordings of themselves singing in protest of this horrific loss of basic freedom.
We discuss the ban, and we discuss Miley Cyrus's song "Wrecking Ball", a song which in many ways exemplifies the oppressive masculine forces at play in the American pop music industry.
Find the Afghan woman's song we share in the episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHTbPNPZ1o&ab_channel=VoiceofAmerica
In the language portion, we discuss wreck and similarly violent or damage based words and their origins.
The Eurovision song this episode is Finland's 2013 entry, "Marry Me" by Krista Seigfrids.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Caffeinated Conspiracies. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/caffeinated-conspiracies/id1454287363
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Valentine's Day is coming up, so we talk about the thing that no one does on Valentine's Day since we're all on dates. Fart!
And who better to pair with farts than Canadian pop sensation Feist?
We talk about the etymology of fart, other words for fart, words you didn't know mean fart, and the science and cultural history of farting.
For Eurovision, we look at Sweden 2024's Marcus and Martinus and their song "Unforgettable".
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is . Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/hauntedtales
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We look at the sneakily successful Mark Ambor. Give his music a listen, and you may be surprised to realize that you already know it.
And we look at the second of time. How did we come to call it that? What relation does it have to second as in 2nd place? Learn about the people who standardize time and how that came about. And learn about why we use a base 60 system for time.
In Eurovision we talk about Armenia 2024 - "Jako" by Ladaniva.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is (). Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link:
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Today we discuss one of the biggest hits of 2024, and we look into the etymology and history of the endless list of words for coffee, from coffee itself to descriptors of types of coffee like macchiato.
For Eurovision, we discuss Norway's 2024 song "Gåte" by Ulveham, and we talk about Norway's coffee culture including weird coffee pairings.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Rowan & Pine. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rowan-pine-a-spooky-feminist-folklore-mythology-podcast/id1632401774
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Next week we will be talking about "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter, so this week we brought on a Sabrina Carpenter fan, our friend Jess from the wonderful music news podcast Music Notes with Jess.
We also talk about her podcast, music pet peeves, and the New York dialect.
Find Jess's podcast anywhere you get podcasts, or at this link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-notes-with-jess/id1482464592
Also follow her podcast on instagram at this link:
https://www.instagram.com/musicnoteswithjess/
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is The Ugly Radio. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ugly-radio/id1515895095
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We are once again looking at the most popular song from 100 years ago! It's 1924's "Ain't Gonna Rain No More", an old folk song performed by a variety of artists, but most famously by Wendell Woods Hall, considered by some to be the first modern pop star.
We'll explore some of the popular lyrics of the song, a song which has countless verses since lots of singers like to add new ones.
And we'll explore the dialectical variation of losing the "R" sounds, particularly after vowels, like how in the song of the episode, "more" becomes "mo". This is a phenomenon known as derhoticization, R-dropping, R-less, and various other things. Where did this pronunciation quirk originate, and where did it spread to?
We'll also talk about the concept of R-like sounds in general, and how they're different in different languages. What makes a sound R-like, even in a language that doesn't have the letter R?
For Eurovision, we're talking about Cyprus's 2024 song "Liar" by Silia Kapsis.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is The Lost Signal Podcast. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-signal-podcast/id1465964518
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Next week we are talking about r-dropping accents - accents that say cah for car and so on, often found in British accents, and so we hunted down a real live British person to talk to about the British accent.
That person is Matt from the podcast Pick a Disc. On Matt's podcast, each episode a guest tells Matt about an album they love, and they have a nice chat about it that is insightful, funny, and highly listenable. I love this podcast. I know you will too. Check it out where you listen to podcasts or at this link: https://pod.link/pickadisc
You can also follow Pick a Disc on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/pickadisc/
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week's promoted podcast is Jack Billings Presents. Their new season is King of the Bighouse. Find them wherever you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jack-billings-presents/id1701071750
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Happy Hanukkah listeners! We're discussing apartheid, the Israel Palestine conflict, and parallels to the history of Hanukkah.
To do that, we chose Dave Matthews, a man from South Africa who has spoken out against Palestinian genocide, and his song "Last Stop" about the topic.
For Eurovision, we talk about Israel's 2024 entry "Hurricane" by Eden Golan and the controversy surrounding it.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Beyond the Shadows. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hgfTsx24MjcxaopQNURyX?si=b7679e12b5a0417f
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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This Thanksgiving we are diving into the slang phrase "It's giving" which is used to describe something's vibes or je ne se quoix or . . . Just listen to the podcast, we explain it. We also talk about the etymology of the word give itself.
We talk about Latto, a rapper named after a racial slur? And we'll tell you who she is and how she came to be famous.
And it's Thanksgiving, so we're talking about some Thanksgiving stuff, including the origin of the phrase "Indian giver".
For Eurovision, we discuss Germany's 2024 offering, "Always on the Run" by Isaak.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Freaky Fridays. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/freakyfridayspod
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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Today we are joined by Heddwen Newton. Heddwen is half Dutch, half British, and writes two entertaining newsletters about language.
English and the Dutch is about how Dutch people speak English (hint: sometimes badly), and also dives into interesting etymologies that link the two languages.
Heddwen has been writing about difficult-to-translate Dutch words and idioms since 2017 on her blog HoezegjeinhetEngels.nl.
English in Progress lists neologisms and Gen Z slang in a way that is funny but also lexicographically sound.
And we are talking about the Dutch influence on English including loan words and cultural intersections. Obviously we're pairing this with Tyler the Creator because, well, he made a song with a Dutch title, Yonkers. Find out what Yonkers means in the podcast.
For Eurovision this week we talk about the Netherlands' 2024 performer Joost Klein (and also learn how to say Joost Klein), and we talk about the aftermath and resolution to the controversy that happened with him during Eurovision.
Find Heddwen and her content at these links:
https://englishandthedutch.substack.com/
https://englishinprogress.substack.com/
https://hoezegjeinhetengels.nl/
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thick-thighs-and-creepy-vibes/id1736179086
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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With the diabetes and the tooth decay and so on, what's scarier than sugary sweetness? Waking up early, according to Hozier!
We talk about how to say Hozier, and other things about this artist such as his penchant for activism.
And we discuss the word sweet, its origins and etymology.
In Eurovision, we discuss Portugal's 2024 entry "Grito" by Iolanda, because it's Halloween, and grito means scream, sort of.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Crime & Spirits. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/crimeandspiritspodcast
Find them, us, and lots of other great podcasts on our podcast network podmoth.network
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We discuss the Bruce Springsteen of Vermont, Noah Kahan, and that one song he has that really sticks in your head. Also, what is stick season anyway?
We talk about the word stick and related words. And, no spoilers, but there are a lot of related words. We also look at some stick-based idioms like "more than you can shake a stick at", "the short end of the stick", "stuck up", and "sticks and stones".
For Eurovision, we discuss Georgia's 2024 song "Firefighter" by Nutsa Buzaladze. And we discuss the months of the Georgian calendar.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Speak of the Devil. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://linktr.ee/speakofthedevil
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Sacre Bleu, it's the return of Billie Eilish, and she's singing in French! Oh wait she's not, just the song title is in French. Well anyway! C'est la vie.
We talk about the rise of queerness in music. And then we talk about French, the language of love. Why is it thought of as the most romantic language?
For Eurovision, we discuss Luxembourg's 2024 song "Fighter" by TALI, and the Luxembourgian language's word for love.
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Brutal, Bizarre, and Boozy. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://open.spotify.com/show/44Z9VDxjEVGpbPBkYzQorh?si=0556a1a9b65048bd&nd=1&dlsi=44ebdc801f444221
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Today we're talking about a super sunny song and the darkness that lies within.
And we're pairing that with the topic of covert hate speech, basically. A lot of numbers. Bigots seem to really like numbers. Kind of good to know what the tainted numbers are so you don't accidentally use them, just saying.
For Eurovision, we are finally talking about the winner of Eurovision, Switzerland's Nemo, and their song "The Code".
Find us on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/gettingdownandwordy/
And email us at [email protected]
Huge thanks to Patsy Walker for the use of our theme song “Who’s Wordy Now”!
This week’s promoted podcast is Haunted Moonlight. Find them anywhere you get podcasts or at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/haunted-moonlight/id1703911242
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